Relationship satisfaction: The role of love styles and attachment styles

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2002, Pages

  Fricker, Julie ^a   Moore, Susan ^a,b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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